What a lovely perspective. Truly.
Yeah I wish I’d heard it said this way growing up.
It’s a wonderful message
What’s up with feet? Why does he keep washing feet? Is it a fetish?
It’s a thing he does in the bible. It’s an act of service. It’s a menial task that he willingly does to show that everyone should help one another even if it’s only in the most basic of things.
They lived in an arid region and used sandals, at the end of the day their feet would be very dusty.
The disciples at that point still expected Jesus to be a political king to free the Jews from the Roman Empire by force; Jesus did the slave job of washing feet to show them that in His upside-down “kingdom”, the king is slave to all, and likewise how His followers should act.
Jesus exists in Christianity to fill a fundamental religious need of humans: to feel like good people. Jesus is morally admirable and compassionate, and through moral licensing, Christians transfer those desirable qualities to their own self-image, without actually having to be morally admirable and compassionate themselves. He isn’t really an example to be emulated. But that idea makes the transfer more effective. Just telling oneself that they are TRYING to follow Jesus’s example makes one feel better about themselves, and perversely permits them to act more poorly without negative self-image consequences.
If only
